Saturday, June 16, 3:45 p.m. Castro
WEST COAST PREMIERE
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| Every Act of Life |
Playwright Terrence McNally is famous for so many works it’s hard to know where to begin: Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, The Ritz, and Ragtime, just to name a few. He didn’t set out to be a great gay playwright, any more than Arthur Miller set out to be a great straight playwright, but neither did McNally shrink from gay material or the gay community. The maxim “Write what you know” led him again and again to write about us, beginning when it was still illegal even in New York City.
This documentary takes us from McNally’s childhood in conservative working-class Corpus Christi, Texas, to the three plays he’s currently working on. Interviews with stars such as Angela Lansbury, Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, Edie Falco, F. Murray Abraham, and many more, plus interviews with McNally himself, fill in the picture of his personal and professional life. Whether you’re a Broadway habitué or you’ve scarcely even heard of it, you should see this excellent film about a groundbreaking writer. Definitely a MUST SEE.
• IMDb • official website (note: the IMDb link to the production co. website is incorrect) •
This documentary takes us from McNally’s childhood in conservative working-class Corpus Christi, Texas, to the three plays he’s currently working on. Interviews with stars such as Angela Lansbury, Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, Edie Falco, F. Murray Abraham, and many more, plus interviews with McNally himself, fill in the picture of his personal and professional life. Whether you’re a Broadway habitué or you’ve scarcely even heard of it, you should see this excellent film about a groundbreaking writer. Definitely a MUST SEE.
• IMDb • official website (note: the IMDb link to the production co. website is incorrect) •
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